My principal research interests are in syntax and syntactic theory, information structure, discourse markers, cross-linguistic and dialectal variation, and linguistic interfaces and interface phenomena. I welcome inquiries from prospective students who clearly articulate how their proposed research aligns directly with one or more of these research areas. I am unable to reply to supervision requests that do not satisfy this criterion. General information about Graduate Courses in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics is available here.

My monograph The Typology of Constituent Questions is due to be published by Oxford University Press in 2026. My full publication list is here.

With Prof. Dr. Sandra Götz-Lehmann and Kathrin Kircili of the University of Marburg, I'm co-organising the Panel Pragmatic Markers in Learner Language at the International Pragmatics Association 2027 meeting in Helsinki. Call for papers here; deadline: 22 October 2026.

I was a participant in the research network NoCaSynE: Syntax Beyond the Canon, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), that looks at non-canonical English syntax.

In 2023, I ran the UNIQ+ project on The Meaning of 'Meaningless' Pronouns. Our primary outcome was the chapter The Demonstrative ProTag construction in Social Interaction in "Language in Social Interaction: a historical perspective edited by Alexander Haselow and Gunther Kaltenböck.

One of my articles on the language used in the plays of Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Jonson was featured in a Somerville College News item.